The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-23

his pistol on the counter, which was
picked up by Brown. Longest then
seized "A lighted lamp which was on the
counter and threw it at Brown, SCATTERING
1T in pieces, whereupon Brown fired five
rounds as fast as he could pull the trigger
the pistol being selfcocker, three of the
=. balls entering the ceiling overhead and one
tearing its way through a shoe box on the
shelf and running So pair of Shoes. The
other shot could not be found. The Break
ing of he lamp set fire TO the store, but it
was soon extinguished. The store was well
| crowded with negroes, but was emptied in a
| twinking after the first shot was fired
The cut on ongest's hand bled pro
fusely, but was soon stopped by DR.. M. d.
Lanier Whisky was at the bottom of the
trouble,
AT Atlanta Wednesday an interesting and
| important session of the Board of Trustees
of tho University of Georgia was held at the
kimball House. The report of the Commits
sion ON the School Of Technology was read
and received as information. The trustees
| and members of the commission spent some
time in discussing the affairs of the new
school, the various branches to be studied
and the progress of the work. The Board
of Trustees finally created the following
chairs in the School of Technology: Mechan-
ical engineering, physics, freehand and
mechanical drawing, architecture, geology
| The following resolution was unanimously
adopted: That the commission of the school
OF technology be authorized to fill the chairs
| hereby created viz: Mechanical engineer
ing, physics, freehand and mechanical
drawing, architecture, geology and min
eralogy, mathematics, English; and elect
| president superintendent of the manual
department, and secretary and treasurer of
| the faculty, and to fix the salaries for all of
said officers The board of trustees there
| upon adjourned. It is understood that the
commissioners will push the work on the
buildings as rapidly as possible and will fill
the chairs in February or March next
Monroe Neios: The citizens Of Monroe
last Thursday night were treated TO
| serenade with fire-crackers Five hundred
packs, more or less, were popped. Some
were set off on the streets, while it is
claimed that others were turned loose on
porches and in the yards of peacefully dis
posed citizens Mingled with the incessant
crack of the crackers was the roar of dumb
bulls IA brute created out of a paper box
with rawhide head and a string, king
racket that sounded and smet OF
Christmas Next day quite a number
of young men and boys were summoned
by the Marshal to appear before His
Honor Mayor Edwards, bus nobody
had bought any fire-crackers; nobody
had sold any; nobody had seen any, and
only few had heard any Nobody recog-
nized anybody else they had SEEM those
who had popped the crackers had masks or
and could not be recognized, ct Mayor
Edwards subjected most of the witnesses to
searching examination, but it was impos-
sible to adduce sufficient evidence to con
Wet. 1t is understood that the packs were
fired, and the ammunition procured in such
a way that nobody could swear against
anybody else 1t is certain that large
number participated. and they didn't make
any half grown racket either The great
danger is fire. and such pranks may some
time result very disaStrously to the town.
Augusta Evening NeUs: On September
ID last the EUening NelUS published the fol
lowing letter, received by Postmaster Boyce:
Darlington C. H., S. c., Sept. s, 1857
Postmaster-Dear Sir; VIII you please to
be kind enough to let me know if you know
of a red headed man there anywhere by the
name of John Galway. He was raised in
Darlington, S. G. If you do not know him
please find out for me if there is such man
there in the city. If you will please do me
the favor | will pay you for your
trouble. Please let me hear from you
soon. Please oblige Conrad Martin.
The red headed man has been found,
and the credit is due to Sergt. W. A
Pickering. The NelCS met Mr.. Pickering
this morning and enquired of him the par
ticulars of the find He informed us that
he read the notice in the Erening Ncl0s and
Immediately set to work on the case. He
first wrote to Darlington and ascertained
that considerable sum of money, some
s14, 900, was waiting Galloway, and a good
sum would be paid him if he succeeded in
finding the lost heir. Mr.. Pickering imme-
diately went into detective work. and after
traversing South Georgia, and getting a
clew here and there, Travelled on foot
through portion of Florida, and finally
found his man at Orage Mills, in the inte-
rior of the Land of Flowers. Mr.. Gala
way went on to Darlington Tuesday night,
while Detective Pickering remained in Au-
gusta with his friends.